Status Updates From Childhood's End

Quotes

Page 196
"They were emptier than the faces of the dead, for even a corpse has some record carved by time's chisel upon its features, to speak when the lips themselves are dumb."

Page 200
"The arrangement has some advantages: besides, no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

Page 180
"(...) loneliness would vanish as personality faded. The countless raindrops would have merged into the ocean."

Page 181 | George + Jean POV
"He was a sound sleeper, but this time he woke at once. They did not speak, for the words that were wanted did not exist."

Quote Page 173

"(...) It was as though the planet was in mourning, lamenting all that now could never be."

Quote Page 168

"(...)It occurs over and over again in your literature. Imagine that every man's mind is an island, surrounded by the ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be the end of the islands, they would all be part of one continent, but their individuality would have gone."

It was the end of civilization, the end of all that men had striven for since the beginning of time. In the space of a few days, humanity had lost its future, for the heart of any race is destroyed, and its will to survive is utterly broken, when its children are taken from it.